Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
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06-27-2013, 03:20 PM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Hi Reignette. Yes, I have seen several references to this story. For example, the National Geographic web page here says:
While staying at the White House in the 1940s, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill—who disliked sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom—emerged naked from a bathtub and walked into an adjoining room. There, he supposedly ran right into Lincoln, who was leaning on the mantle above the fireplace. They looked each other in the face, to Churchill’s embarrassment, and Lincoln abruptly vanished, according to an account in Mark Nesbitt’s book Civil War Ghost Trails: Stories from America’s Most Haunted Battlefields. The story, a little different, is also mentioned here. |
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06-27-2013, 03:44 PM
Post: #242
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Anna Surratt is said to beat on the White House door if the light at that door is ever turned off. Supposedly President Eisenhower issued orders that the light would remain on at all times and that the bulb would be changed frequently and never allowed to burn out.
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06-30-2013, 04:58 AM
Post: #243
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Abraham Lincoln’s favourite poem was “Mortality” by William Knox. Which president’s favourite poem was/is this:
I Have a Rendezvous with Death I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air — I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair. It may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breath — It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows ’twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear . . . But I’ve a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. (Alan Seeger) |
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06-30-2013, 05:51 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Franklin Roosevelt?
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06-30-2013, 06:44 AM
Post: #245
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
How about JFK
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06-30-2013, 08:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2013 08:16 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #246
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Brilliant, Mr. Richter. It was JFK's favourite poem.
Alan Seeger (June 22, 1888 – July 4, 1916) fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger is the uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger, and was a classmate of T.S. Eliot at Harvard. If Lincoln had known the poem, he probably would have loved it, too, wouldn't he? |
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07-11-2013, 04:10 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Which First Lady wrote the following?
"The rest of the family doesn't seem to suspect that I have 'had more than is good for me,' anymore than they suspect what an extraordinary woman I am - how very superior to the rest of my sex." |
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07-11-2013, 04:34 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Edith Wilson?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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07-11-2013, 04:54 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Excellent guess, Gene, but it was not her.
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07-11-2013, 06:04 AM
Post: #250
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Abigail Adams?
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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07-11-2013, 06:18 AM
Post: #251
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Nope, Rob. Excellent guess but not her.
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07-11-2013, 08:47 AM
Post: #252
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Sounds like Hilary Clinton.
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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07-11-2013, 08:53 AM
Post: #253
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
I am sorry, Joe, but it wasn't her, either. (Help Laurie - should it be 'it wasn't she' rather than 'it wasn't her?')
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07-11-2013, 09:03 AM
Post: #254
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
How about Eleanor Roosevelt?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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07-11-2013, 09:09 AM
Post: #255
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Nope, Gene, not her either.
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